Another rediculous modding project :)

pyure

Once again a combination on boredom and spare cash leads to another hair brained guitar modding scheme - and this time I've decided to share it with you all!
This one's mostly electrical and follows a simple, yet hopefully effective, receipe:
take one epiphone les paul 100
install one gfs dream90 pickup (no need for a neck pickup)
add one compressor/sustainer modboard
and hope for the best
also replace the volume/tone pots and cap to suit the p90
add some locking tuners

if all goes according to plan I should end up with a concentric gain/threshold knob for the sustainer with an on/off true bypass switch, volume/tone knobs that actually work properly and a guitar that stays in tune!

I'll post pics as stuff happens and hopefully some sound clips at the end - wish me luck !

edit: made a few changes to the receipe after consulting with jay from guitarfetish, and added in a few general upgrades

darrenw5094

Good luck.

DeadSkin

Ah, I wouldn't say ridiculous, it's not that it's an expensive guitar that you're experimentin' with, so you're losing nothin' if it fails miserably.

Keep us posted anywho.
Oh and good luck

pyure

Time for an update

My order arrived this morning, unfortunately the actual MODBoard was not included
So I have all the pots and switches but nothing to connect them to. sigh.
Guess it'll be another couple of weeks before this is finished.

NoQuarter

hey mate,

i just installed that MODboard in my new strat this morning but i cant test it yet(dont even have a pickguard yet!),

the board itself is TINY!! had major hand shake syndrome when i was trying to solder!!

its quite confusing if your anything like me and havent a clue what your doing!!

let us know how ya get on!

pyure

king-stew wrote: »

its quite confusing if your anything like me and havent a clue what your doing!!

let us know how ya get on!

I'm exactly like you, which is why mine's going to a professional
E-mail them today and a replacement is in the post.
It'll probally be the most of 2 weeks now until it's all assembled, but I'll keep ya posted.

NoQuarter

well im buildin my guitar from the ground up and i had to take out the MODboard earlier because i cant get the guitar to work at all so as soon as i can get it working like a normal strat ill try change it and but the board in!

awkward little buggers!